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UCLA WOMEN’S SOCCER UCLA Athletic Communications / J.D. Morgan Center / 325 Westwood Plaza / Los Angeles, CA 90095 / (310) 825-8664 Women’s Soccer Contact: Liza David ([email protected]; 310-621-8398) UCLA’S TOP SCORERS No. 3 UCLA (8-0, 5-0) vs. No. 12 USC (3-3-0, 2-3-0) No. Player GP GS G A Pts GWG Thursday, Mar. 18, 2021 – 7 p.m. PT 66 Reilyn Turner 8 6 4 2 10 2 Los Angeles, Calif. (Wallis Annenberg Stadium) 10 Mia Fishel 8 8 4 1 9 2 16 Sunshine Fontes 8 1 4 0 8 2 MEDIA INFORMATION 23 Marley Canales 8 8 2 4 8 1 TV: Pac-12 Networks 17 Delanie Sheehan 8 8 2 2 6 1 Talent: Anne Marie Anderson, Tammy Blackburn vs. 19 Jacey Pederson 8 8 1 2 4 0 Live Stats: uclalivestats.com 14 Olivia Athens 8 8 1 1 3 0 7 Kaila Novak 7 3 0 1 1 0 3-3, 2-3 8-0, 5-0 3 Aislynn Crowder 5 0 0 1 1 0 All-Time Series: UCLA leads, 26-6-1 2020-21 SCHEDULE UCLA has won four straight in the series and won last year’s contest in Westwood, 4-2, the ! rst game that wasn’t decided February by a one-goal margin since 2015, which was USC’s last win. Sun. 7 at #25 Pepperdine W 3-0 Fri. 12 #10 BYU W 2-1 Tue. 16 San Diego W 3-0 Fri. 26 at Arizona* W 2-1 CROSSTOWN SHOWDOWN No. 3 UCLA (8-0, 5-0 in the Pac-12) hosts No. 12 USC (3-3, 2-3) in a non-conference matchup at Wallis Annenberg March Stadium on Thursday, Mar. 16 at 7pm PT. The game will be televised live on Pac-12 Networks, with Anne Marie Fri. 5 #20 Oregon* W 3-0 Anderson and Tammy Blackburn on the call. Sun. 7 Oregon State* (TV: P12N) W 2-1 (ot) Fri. 12 at Colorado* (Stream: P12Insider) W 1-0 Due to local and state health guidelines, Thursday’s game, along with all UCLA Athletics competitions, will be hosted Sun. 14 at Utah* (TV: P12N) W 2-0 in a spectator-free environment. For updates regarding in-person attendance at UCLA Athletics events, please check Thur. 18 USC (TV: P12N) 7 p.m. UCLABruins.com. Fri. 26 Arizona State* (TV: P12N) 7 p.m. BRUINS REMAIN PERFECT April UCLA’s perfect start to the season continued last weekend after a pair of shutout wins at Colorado and Utah. The Fri. 2 Washington State* (TV: P12N) 6 p.m. Bruins earned a 1-0 victory at Colorado on Friday after an early goal by Delanie Sheehan held up. On Sunday, Sun. 4 Washington* (TV: P12N) 2 p.m. freshman Reilyn Turner scored a pair of goals in a 2-0 win at Utah. Goalkeeper Lauren Brzykcy earned both shutouts Fri. 9 at California* 12 p.m. and has a Pac-12-leading ! ve on the season. Sun. 11 at Stanford* (TV: P12N) 2 p.m. BEST START IN 20 YEARS Fri. 16 at USC* (TV: P12N) 8 p.m. With eight consecutive victories to begin the season, UCLA is off to its best start in 20 years. The 2001 squad won NCAA Tournament its ! rst 11 games of the year Apr. 22 NCAA First Round TBD RODRIGUEZ HONORED Apr. 25 NCAA Second Round TBD Senior Karina Rodriguez earned her third career Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week award after playing the full Apr. 30-May 2 NCAA Third Round TBD 90 minutes in each of UCLA’s shutout wins on the road at Colorado and Utah. The Bruins’ defensive leader in both May 7-9 NCAA Quarter! nals TBD games, she helped limit the Buffaloes to just two shots on goal and the Utes to three. Rodriguez is the third different May 13- 17 NCAA College Cup TBD Bruin defender to win the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week award, joining Lucy Parker and Jacey Pederson. * denotes Pac-12 Conference game FRESHMAN PHENOM UCLA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Freshman Reilyn Turner has made a big impression early on in her collegiate career, leading the team in scoring with 10 points and tying for the team lead in goals (four) and game-winning-goals (two). Turner had a brace in UCLA’s last Women’s Soccer Twitter: @UCLAWSoccer game at Utah, scoring both goals in a 2-0 victory. Named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Freshman Best XI, Turner brings Women’s Soccer Instagram: @UCLAWSoccer a great deal of U.S. Youth National Team experience, playing with the U.S. U-19s in 2020 and with the U-17s at the Women’s Soccer TikTok: @UCLAWSoccer Women’s Soccer Facebook: /UCLAWSoccer 2018 CONCACAF Championship, where she scored two goals, including the game-winner against Canada to send UCLA Athletics Twitter: @UCLAAthletics the team to the semi! nals. UCLA Athletics Instagram: @UCLAAthletics TIME TO SHINE UCLA Athletics TikTok: @UCLAAthletics Redshirt freshman Sunshine Fontes has been a ray of light for the Bruins this season, scoring a team-high-tying four UCLA Athletics Facebook: /UCLAAthletics goals in just 330 minutes played. She recorded her ! rst multi-goal game as a Bruin against Oregon, scoring two #GoBruins impressive goals, including the game-winner. Fontes also scored the game-winner against BYU in the home opener. Fontes, who was the all-time leading scorer for the U.S. Under-17 National Team with 24 goals, tore her ACL in 2019 at the end of her high school season and missed the entire 2019 season. She made her UCLA debut in the 2020-21 season opener, playing 22 minutes at Pepperdine. She has gradually increased her minutes played and logged a season-high 59 minutes while earning her ! rst start against Oregon State. QUEEN FISH Sophomore forward Mia Fishel has picked up where she left off last season when she led the team with 14 goals scored, including six goals in her last six games. Fishel is tied for the team lead in goals scored with four and is tied for second in points with nine. She already has 18 goals and eight game-winning goals in a little over one season and needs just two more game-winners to move into UCLA’s Top 10 list for career game-winning goals. Fishel earned her ! rst call-up with the U.S. Women’s National Team in October and was the Golden Ball winner at the 2020 Concacaf U-20 Championships after scoring a U.S. record 13 goals in the tournament. 2020-21 UCLA WOMEN’S SOCCER UNITED SOCCER COACHES POLL CANALES CAN DO ALL (Mar. 16, 2021) Senior mid! elder Marley Canales has had a hand in a third of UCLA’s goals this season, tallying two goals and a RK TEAM (1st votes) PREV. RECORD team-high four assists. She has two penalty kick goals, scoring the game-winner in overtime against Oregon State 1 Florida State (33) 1 11-0-0 and the game-tying goal against BYU (she is 5-for-5 in her career on PKs; additionally, she hit the deciding PK in the 2 North Carolina (0) 2 11-1-0 2017 NCAA semi! nals). In the season opener at Pepperdine, her ! rst game back since tearing her ACL in October 3 UCLA (1) 3 8-0-0 2019, Canales recorded three assists in the 3-0 victory. Three of her four assists this season have come off set 4 TCU 4 8-0-1 pieces - two corner kicks and a free kick. 5 Duke 5 8-4-2 6 Vanderbilt 6 9-4-0 RODRIGUEZ RETURNS 7 West Virginia 7 8-2-0 After missing three games while on Mexican National Team duty, senior defender Karina Rodriguez made a welcomed 8 Clemson 8 9-4-0 return to the pitch against Oregon State on Mar. 7, playing 65 minutes and taking three shots. She played the full 90 9 Virginia 9 10-3-1 in both road games last weekend and earned Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week honors. Rodriguez started UCLA’s 10 South Carolina 11 8-3-0 ! rst two games before being called up for a pair of games against Costa Rica. She started in the second game on 11 Penn State 10 4-1-1 12 Texas A&M 12 8-3-0 Feb. 23 and helped Mexico record a shutout in a 0-0 tie. 13 Santa Clara 23 3-0-0 BRZYKCY IS LEADER OF THE PAC 14 Oklahoma State 15 9-2-1 15 Georgetown 16 6-0-0 Named the Pac-12’s Goalkeeper of the Week in each of the ! rst two weeks of the season, redshirt junior goalkeeper 16 Arizona State RV 6-0-2 Lauren Brzykcy is leading the conference in shutouts (! ve), goals against average (0.37) and save percentage 17 BYU 13 4-3-0 (0.897). She also ranks 11th nationally in shutouts. Brzykcy, who played behind four-year starter Teagan Micah for 18 Arkansas 18 10-3-0 three seasons, is now 16-3-0 in her career with nine shutouts and a career goals against average of 0.67. 19 Memphis 19 4-0-0 20 Stanford 21 4-2-0 ACL GANG COMING BACK STRONG 21 Rutgers 17 4-1-1 Nearly half of UCLA’s 18 goals this season have come from players coming back from ACL injuries. Jacey Pederson 22 Saint Louis 20 6-1-0 was the ! rst of the ACL gang to score.